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SUMMER DROUGHT.
When winter came the land was lean and
There fell no snow, and oft from wild an<
field
In famish tameness came the drooping doer.
And licked the waste al>out the troughs con
gealed.
J »d though at spring we plowed and proffered
seed.
4>lny uniformed. a pillage for the birds;
As.,l unto one low dam, in urgent need,
We daily drove the suppliant lowing herds.
But now the fields to barren wastes have run.
The dam a pool of oozing greenery lies,
Where knots of gnats hang reeling in the sun
Till early dusk, when tilt th ■ dragon-tiles.
All night the craw-fish deeper digs her wells.
As shows the clay that ireshly curbs them
round;
And many a random upheavod tunnel tells
Where ran the mole across the fallow
ground.
But ah, the stone-dumb dullness of the dawn.
" hen e’en the cocks too listloss are to crow.
An 1 lies the wi rid as from all life Withdrawn,
Unheeding and outworn and swooning lowl
There is no dew on any greenness shed.
The hard-baked earth is split along ths
walks.
The very burs in stur.ted clumps arc dead.
And mullcn-leaves drop withered from ths
stalks.
Yet ere the noon, as brass th" heaven turns.
The cruel sun smiles with unerring aim.
The sight and touch of all things blinds and
burns,
And bare, hot hills seem shimmering into
flame 1
On cither side the shoe-deep dusted Jnne
Tlie meager wisps of fennel scorch to wire;
Slow lags the team that drags an empty wain,
Anil, creaking dry, a wheel runs off its tire.
No flock upon the naked pasture feeds.
No blithesome “Bob-White” whistles from
the fence;
A gust runs crackling through the brittle
weeds.
And heat and silence seem the more Intense!
On outspread wings a hawk, far poised on
high.
Quick swooping screams, and then is hoard
no more;
The strident shrilling of a locust nigh
Breaks forth, and dies in silence as before.
No transient cloud o’ersklms with flakes of
shade
The landscape hazed In dizzy gleams of
heat;
A dove's wing glances like a parried Wade,
And western walls the beams in torrents
beat.
So burning, low and lower st 11 the sun,
In fierce white fervor. sink< anon from
sight.
And so the dread, despairing day is done,
And dumbly broods again the haggard night I
—J. I'. h r>,u, in i ■ n'aiu Majatinr.
First Snow in Melbourne, Austral! i.
On Wednesday, July 26, a spectacle
of a decidedly novel and, ns far as is
ollk-ially known, unprecedented charac
ter was observed by the citizens of Mel
bourne and suburbs—viz.: a genuine
snow-fall. It is true that, a number of
colonists aver that snow fell on more
than one occasion in Melbourne during
the first, decade of Victorian history, but
our meteorological recot’ds are silent on
the point; and Mr. Ellery, the Govern
ment Astronomer, whose recollection
extends back to 1851, declares that the
snow-fall was the first in his Victorian
experience. 4J tu gether, Wednesday,
.Inly 26, 1882, was a most exceptional
day in several respects. Its average
temperature was the lowest on record,
the thermometer never having risen
above forty degrees, while for the
greater part of the day it was as low as
thirty nine degree-. A lower tempera
ture than the latter ha been registered
at the Ob-ervatory, but only for a very
brief period.
The peculiarity about the day con
sisted in the uniformly low temperature
that prevailed in Australia. It had been
raining slightly during the previou
night, and Wednesday morning opened
with evident signs of a continuance of
similar went her. But few in Melbourne
were prepared for what look plate
shortly alter eight o’clock, when min
gled snow and rain commenced to de
scend. reviving old-world memories and
occasioning' general express ons of sur
prise. To voting Australians tin* spec
tacle of falling snow-flakes tilling the
• air was indeed a new experience, and
they were enabled to compare the ac
tual reality with the conceptions formed
by reading the description of simi'ar
scenes on the other side of the e mitor.
At about halt-past eight a heavier
fall of snow was observed, the flakes
being thicker. and in some places tern
porarilv wbiten ng a pretl v large area,
dhe fail lasted for about half an hour,
during which time large numbers of
people in a l ; arts of the city and sub
urbs watched the unusual sight with
keen and evident interest. The fall was
by no means confined to the vicinity
of the Victo’ian Capital, for it extended
over the whole Southern portion of Aus
tralia, ami also embraced the elevated
districts of this colony, where “heavy
snow" was reported from Mount Vic
toria, Carcoar, \\ aloha. Bendameer,
Orange, Annidale and Kiandra. At the
last-mentioned township, which is situ
ated near the head waters of the Snowy
River, the ground was covered with
twenty inches of snow.
In Victoria the snow-fall at Mount
Macedon was continuous, and Mount
Buninyong capped with three feet of
snow, the roofs of the houses in this el
evated locality being likewise covered.
Ice three iir lies thick was also reported
from Mount Buninyong. The fall at
Lancefield lasted lor two hours, and at
Beaufort the ground was covered to a
depth of more than two inches. The
mountains surrounding Ararat were
wrapped in a fleecy mantle, and at
Smythesdale snow-balling was the pop
lar amusement during the greater por
tion of the day. On Mount Cole two
feet of snow was lying, and the saw
mills were compelled to suspend work
in consequence The ranges in the
neighborhood of Tall»ot and Stawell w ere
likewise snow-clad during a part of the
day.— Melbourne A ’-atis.
—The provisions of the Indian penal
code in regard to the right of private
defense are particularly sensible. Under
this law the right extends to the protec
tion of one’s own or another’s body and
of one’s own or another’s property. It
does not exist, however, when there is
time to have recourse to the protection
of public authorities. More harm must
not be caused in its exercise than is nec
essary for the purposes of defense. It
commences and ends with the apprehen
sion of danger. Death may also be
caused in exercise of the right of private
defense of property in ease of robbery,
housebreaking by night, mischief by
fire in a building, etc., and of theft anil
house trespass, when fear of death is in
volved.—N. Y. Graphic.
—A man and wife in St. Lawrence
County, N. Y., over seventy years old,
were recently down with the wjmoping
cough, which they caught from their |
grandchildren.
A First Earthquake Experience.
“Mexico, July 19.—This has been a
day to be remembered. This morning
we invited the Q— —-’s to come up to tea
to night. After school we sallied forth
to buy clams for a clam-chowder, cake,
and various things. We were walking
briskly along San Francisco street in the
hot sun, when I felt myself suddenly
whirling—cound not see. I called out
frightened, ‘Why, Miss L , I’m
dizzy!’ ‘So am ll’ she responded, and
then I think for a moment I lost my
senses, for I had a wild idea that I must
get somewhere under shelter. As I saw
people all around dropping on their
knees, I d.d not. want to be the one con
spicuous personage on the street who
would not kneel to the archbishop or the
holy sacrament. Whatever I thought,
1 staggered into a shoe store, and just as
I got inside it struck me that an earth
quake was in session. They were re
pairing something or other in the
store, and I vaguely felt through my
dizzino's that I must get out from under
the sea folding, and I somehow found
mytelf in the street, standing on the
corner and clinging to a building.
“By that time I had recovered my
senses, and could philosophize on the
subject. It was very interesting to watch
the people. They poured out of the
stores into the streets, and very generally
knelt. I took in the height of the build
ings around, and concluded that should
they fall into the narrow streets one
might as well be in one spot as in an
other, so stayed in the shade. It was
very quiet—not a word spoken any
where. I don’t suppose it lasted three
minutes, but it was the queerest sensa
tion imaginable.* For the moment that
I did not know what it was I was dread
fully frightened, but the moment it oc
curred to me that it was only an earth
quake, I was as composed as if I had
taken earthquakes for a daily exercise
all my life. 1 was quite seasick for a
little while, and never was seasick at
sea. lam actually so dizzy now, at 10
o’clock, that I can hardly write. As
soon as the undulating ceased I set out
to find Miss L , who had totally dis-
appeared. I looked Into all the stores
in the immediate vicinity, and as she
did not appear 1 concluded she must
have gone to the common fort., two
blocks away; so I started after her,
smiling broadly all the way—it had
all been so strange. At the next corner
I came upon Mr. II . I asked him
if he had seen Miss L. ‘No.’ So he
turned with me, and together we
searched for her. Mr. II has been
here three or four years, but this was
his first experience of a serious earth
quake. It was really an unusually heavy
shock. We went back to my corner
and turned down the I’rofesa; only a
few steps down and we found Miss L
leaning against a window. She bad
seen me plunge wildly into the shoe
store, and thinking that wo had walked
into some poisonous gas,turned and fled.
She staggered along a little distance un
til she reached a drug-store, went in and
sank into a chair, all the time thinking
it was poisonous gas that had affected
her. Some gentleman brought her
water, and told her what was the
trouble, but she had never heard the
word in Spanish and did not compre
hend; never knew it was an earthquake
till she saw us, and we asked her how
she enjoyed it. Then we hailed a pass
ing coach, as Miss L said she could
not walk, and started for the bakery,
but the horse was so badly frightened
we dismissed the carriage and quietly
wended our way home. Os course our
girls had a tale. They had been terri
bly frightened, and, although Mexicans,
none of them had ever been through an
earthquake, and we were told, most
dramatically, how the chairs slid around
and the walls pranced. Mrs. O. says
the beams cracked quite loudly, and the
ron railing in the corridor shook.”—
Cor. Rochester Democrat.
Cash Arter uarraige.
One frequent cause of trouble in mar
ried life is a want of openness in busi
ness matters. A husband marries a
pretty, thoughtless girl, who has been
used to taking no more thought as to
how she should be clothed than the lil
ies in the field. He begins by not lik
ing to refuse any of her requests. He
will rot hint, so long as he can help it,
at care in trilling expenses he does
not like to associate himself in her
mind with disappointments and self-de
nials. And she, who would have been
willing enough, in the sweet eagerness
to please of lier girlish love w to give up
tiny whims or fancies of her own what
ever. falls into habits of careless ex
travagance and feels herself injured
" hen. at last, a remonstrance comes.
How much wiser would have been per
fect openness in the beg.lining! “Wo
have just so much money to spend this
summer. Now, shall we arrange mat
ters thus or thus?” was the question 1
heard a very young husband ask his
still younger bride not long ago, and
all the womanhood in her answered to
this demand upon it, and her help at
planning and counseling proved not a
thing to be despised, though hitherto
she had “fed upon the roses, and lain
among the lilies of life.” lam speak
ing not of marriages that are no mar
riages where Venus his we lded Vul
can because Vulcan prospered at his
forge but marriages where two true
hearts have set out together, for love's
sake, to learn the lessons of life, and to
live together till death shall part tin m.
And ore of the first lessons for them to
learn is to trust each other entirely.
Ti e me st frivolous girl of all “the rose
bud garden of girls.” if she truly lores,
acquires something of womanliness
ir on her love, and is ready to plan and
help and make hgr small sacrifices for
the general gooa. Try her, and you
will see. Our Continent.
A maker of Cheshire cheese—the
genuine article—tells the London Times
that in England a “limited” quantity
of cheese is made that is finer than any
that could possibly be produced in
America. He avers that in this country
May, June, July and August, which are
the I c-t cheese making months in En
gland. are so warm that line quality
and condition of the article cannot be
a--ured. Americans who have eaten
ehee-e in England ay that the imported
American staple is far finer than that I
which is native.—A; Y. Graphic. I
What Dr. Siemens Expects from the
Gas Engine.
tn his recent inaugural address as ,
President of the British Association., Dr.
C. W. Siemens suggested that the time
might not be far distant when the gas
engine would displace on board our
ships “the somewhat complicated and
dangerous steam boiler” now in use.
The advent of such an engine and of the
dynamo-machine,hedeclared, must mark
a new era of material progress at least
equal to that produced by the introduc
tion of steam power in the early part of
he century.
The great advantage of the gas engine
Is believed to be its saving of fuel. Ac
cording to Dr. Siemens, the best steam
engine yet constructed does not yield in
mechanical effect more than one-seventh
part of the heat energy residing in the
fuel consumed, whereas the factor of
efficiency of the gas engine is one
quarter. If, therefore, It shall be adapt
ed to vessels, the gas engine, being of
half the weight of the present steam
cn ;ine and boilers, and working with
Only about half the present expenditure
of fuel, will admit of an addition of
thirty per cent, to the cargo of “an
Atlantic propeller vessel —no longer to
be called a steamer.” That improve
ment accomplished, the balance of ad
vantages in favor of such vessels w u <1
be sufficient, as he says, to restrict the
use of sailing craft chiefly to the regattas
of sportsmen.
As it is now, steam is rapidly driving
sails from the ocean, just as iron and
steel are superseding wood for ship
construction. Out of the 780 vessels
building, or preparing t > be built, in the
United Kingdom on the 3Uth of June
last, only 130 were sailing craft, while
650 were ste»wi ships; and of this whole
number only 49 sailing vessels and six
steam vessels were of wood, while steel
or homogeneous iron, which is destined
to become the great material for ship
building, was used for 89 steam and 11
sailing vessels.
The great advances hitnerto made in
steam vessels have been in the direction
of saving fuel, in lighter machinery, in
the substitution of the screw for side
wheels, and in the use of iron ami steel
instead of wood for the construction. A
wooden shin could not be built to per
form like tne Alaska or the Arizona.
Whereas in the days of the old Collins
line the steam was expanded only twice,
and the pressure carried was only 18
pounds, the expansion now is .ten or
twelve times, and the pressure is 90 to
100 pounds. The old Cunarders, the
Asia, Africa, and Canada, carried a
pressure of ten pounds merely.
The consequence has been the enor
mous increase in the size of the ocean
steamers and the great advance in their
speed. In April, 1838, the Sirius first
crossed the Atlantic in seventeen days
from Liverpool and fifteen days from
Queenstown. She was of 700 tons and
320 horse power. The Servia, built in
1881, has an extreme length of 530 feet,
and a displacement of 13,000 tons. The
City of Rome, built in the same year, is
600 feet long, aud has a displacement of
13,500 tons. The Alaska, which is 500
feet long, and of 12,000 tons displace
ment, has done the distance between
Queenstown and New York in 7 days, 4
hours, and 32 minutes, and Uie return
voyage in 6 days and 22 hours, a mean
ocean speed of about 17 knots an hour,
or more than double that of the first
steam vessel which crossed the Atlantic.
Undoubtedly if the gas engine shall
be able to do what Dr. Siemens antici
pates, it will give ocean navigation
another and a strong impulse. ItsjNar
greater lightness as compared with the
steam engine and boilers, and its lesser
consumption of coal to produce the same
effect, will admit of a much larger car
go, and greater speed may be obtained
without too much sacrifice of the cargo
capacity of the vessel.— N. Y. Sun.
A Newport Romance.
The Jewish cemetery lies not far from
the synagogue in the sweep made by
Kay street where it joins Touro. In
this quiet spot twelve Jewish families
lie buried, and as we stood beneath the
trees that spread protecting arms over
the graves. Longfellow’s poem, written
after a visit to this cemetery, came most
vividly to mind. One verse especially,
as we looked at the neatly kept flower
bed, the turf so soft and well eared for.
the buds that bloomed above the dead,
came to our lips:
“ Gone are the living, but the dead remain
And not neglected, lor a hand unseen,
Scattering its bounty like summer rain.
Still keeps their graves and memory
green."
In the inclosure are two graves so
near each other that as you stand by one
your shadow falls upon the other; with
in them sleep two lovers, separated dur
ing life, but united long since by death.
Judah Touro and Catherine Hays were
cousins, and among the 4ewsit is a
crime for those so near of kin to marry.
’True to the religion and traditions of
the r race, they separated never to meet
airain, although they lived to be old peo
ple. Neither of them married, content
w ith the memory of their love and the
hearing of each other’s welfare from
mutual friends. They both died in Jan
uary, 1754, when he was seventy-nine
years of age and Catherine was seventy
seven. His name was the last word she
uttered, and in his delirium before death
called him he talked of walking in a
beautiful garden with Catherine Hays,
his tir>t and only love. Judah Touro,
however, did not let disappointment em
bitter his life, for he spent it in active
benevolence, and from a fund left by
him the means are provided to keep the
cemetery in order. It is told of him
that he built churches in New Orleans
for all sects, even contributing towards
the erection of a Unitarian place of wor
ship. On his monument the following
words are cut: “The last of his name,
he inscribed it in the book of philan
thropy to be remembered forever.”
Aiwporf (R. 1.) Cor. Providence Journal.
—Mr. Woodward, in the Country
Gentleman, says if ne should plant a
new orchard with what he knows now’
of peach growing, he would “astonish
the natives.” lie would plant wholly
of white varie'ies, and exclusively for
drying. For this purpose the white va
rieties are worth at least fifteen or twen
ty cents more than other sorts; they
come out of the evaporator as white as
paper. White dried peaches have sold
for forty-two cents a pound when yellow
ones brought onh twenty-eight cents.
The Sultan’s Title.
The idea of a united Islam under the
rule of a single Caliph being a funda
mental conception of the Mussulman
religion, is as old as that religion itself,
and was, during more than a century,
Sitically realized. Under the early
phs Islam was not merely an ab
stract religious system but a highly or
ganized social and political community,
with a monarchical form of government
which rapidly developed into an unlim
ited despotism. The known world, was
divided into two parts, the Daru 1 Is
lam and the Daru ’1 Harb —the. land of
the faithful and the land of the infidel
and throughout the whole extent of the
former the Caliph exercised uncontrolled
temporal and spiritual authority. Such
was the caliphate of the Ommayades,
with Damacus as its capital. With the
fall of that dynasty, about 120 years after
the death of the prophet, the political
unity of Islam came to an end. W hen
the Abbassides seized the supreme pow
er and removed the seat of govern
ment to Bagdad, the Moors of Spain,
refusing to recognize the usurpation,
elected a Caliph of their own from
among the survivors of the dethroned
dynasty, and at a later period a third
independent caliphate was formed in
Egypt by the so-called Fatimite dynasty.
Thus the Mussulman world was split
into three parts, and since that moment
it has never been politically reunited.
The Western and Egyptian caliphates
passed through many crises and finally
perished, but the Eastern Caliphs could
not profit by the weakness and disasters
of their rivals. They were in fact no
longer Caliphs in the old sense of the
term. Ambitious provincial govern
ments and insubordinate Tartar chief
tains had created for themselves and
their descendants semi-independent
sovereignties, and the little central
authority that remained was wield
ed by a band of Prastorians, or
by a Vizier resembling the Mayor of the
palace in the Frankisn monarchy. As
successors of the prophet, the Caliphs
continued to enjoy popular veneration,
and their names were regularly recited
every Friday in the mosques; but they
had lost all real power, and their chief
political functions consisted in legalizing
successful usurpation by performing the
ceremony of investiture for those who
had made themselves practically inde
pendent rulers. The caliphate had be
come, in fact, a loose confederation of
practically independent*States under
the nominal sovereignty of a spiritual
head, and might be compared in some
respects to mediaeval Christendom un
der the spiritual sovereignty of the
Pope. In this etherealized form it has
continued to survive to the present
day. Extinguished in Bagdad by the
great Tartar invasion of the thirteenth
century, it was revived immediately
afterward in Egypt. A mysterious in
dividual, professing to be an Abbasside
who had escaped the massacre of his
family in Bagdad, appeared in Cairo
and declared himself to be the legiti
mate representative of the venerated
dynasty. The 'Mameluke Sultan of the
time, perceiving the advantages of hav
ing a Caliph of his own, caused the
stranger to be recognized by the Ulema,
and thus began a new series of puppet
Caliphs, calling themselves Abbassides,
which lasted for more than two centu
ries and a half (1250-1517). When
Egypt was conquered by the Turks in
1517, the Sultan Selim made the puppet
Caliph of the moment cede to him his
caliphate rights, and ever since that
time the Ottoman Sultans, who have no
pretensions to being descendants of the
Prophet, have had the title of Caliph.—
Constantinople Cor. London Times.
Locating a Fault In mi Ocean Cable.
The work of locating a break or flaw
in t lie cable—a process seemingly so ab
struse —js. with the present improved
instruments, comparatively quick and
e. Discarding technicalities, we may
say briefly that the whole electric po
tency of the cable when fully charged
is know ft. and the same can be quickly
ascertained of the two p rts created by
a break. A delicate machine adjusted
to the nicest fractions discloses the elec
tric units or “ohms” in each part, and
as the number of ohms to the mile is
known, the miles and fractions of miles
in both parts can be found out at each
end of the cable. In the case of a clean
break the locating of it takes about fifteen
m'nutes. But a very angular break, or
a flaw, makes perturbations of the
measurement which it now and then
takes si me hours to rectify. The usual
cause of breaks or flaw’s is attrition on
rocks or sand; and sometimes a break
in very deep water indicates that sea
currents of considerable force prevail
there, contrary to the generally ac
cepted theory that deep-sea waters are
always placid. Most of the fractures,
however, take place in shallows, and
many of them are due to the dragging
anchors of the fisher craft. In two or
three instances the cables have evident
ly been snapped by enraged or hungry
fish. Cor. A. }'. Ereniii/ Post.
Boston Culture.
The rapidity with which a crowd can
be gathered on a public thoronghfur
was demonstrated on Tuesday afternoon.
A couple of young women were passing
the Revere House at the time mention
cd, both dressed in the height of fash
ion, one of them being arrayed in a
terra-cotta suit, which set off her well
developed form to the best advantage.
Upon arriving at the main entrance to
the Revere House they espied a boot
black with the implements of his call
ing, whereupon the young female in
terra-cotta habiliments stopped, drew up
her skirts partially, and pla -ed a very
shapely foot on the “ shiner's ” box. The
boy, in the most nonchalant manner,
proceeded at once to black up and polish
the No. 3 pedal extremity, but ere he
had finished one boot a crowd of fully
200 persons, principally males, was con
vened and watching the' operation with
most intense interest. The first boot
finished, the other was subjected to the
same process, at the close of which the
young woman handed the boy a dime,
and. with her companion, quietly pro
ceeded on her way.— Poet or Star.
—(.'ream Fritters: it you have corn
starch pudding stiff enough to cut in
slices, dip them in cracker dust and
egg, and fry them, laying them on
brown paper to free them from grease
after they are fried;’serve them with
powdeieu sugar.— Rural World.
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The Military Forces of Turkey.
The Politische Correspondent pub
lishes an account, “from a very well-in
formed military source.” of the
present military forces of Turkey. Ac
cording to official statements, says the
writer, the largest number of troops
which Turkey had at any time in the
field during the war of 1877-78 was
490,000 and it took her three years to
obtain that number, as her levies were
raised very gradually in Bulgaria and
Asia Minor, first for action against the
small Slavonic States, and then against
Russia. The military reorganization
law of ISBO provides that the army of
Turkey is to be raised to 1 200,000 men,
without exceeding the limits of ao-e
fixed during the Russo-Turkish war.
How this can be done it is difficult
to understand, seeing that Turkey
has lost 2,000,000 subjects by the
cessions of territory made ‘under
the Berlin Treaty, and that
her Mohammedan population, both in
Europe and As a, is only 9,000,000.
The question of admitting ('hr stians to
the army is only just beginning to be
considered, and is not likely to bo
settled for another five years to come;
and even if ( hristians were employed
on non-combatant duties, such as the
commissariat, transport, • etc.. they
would certainly not increase the army
to anything like 1,200,0(0 men. To do
this a holy war would be necessary, sup
ported by all the power of Dlamita
fanaticism.
—A hundred men make an encamp
ment nmj one woman makes a home.—
From the
Au Infernal Machine.
A rather sad affair took place on oj
of our streets the other day. Ayo’ l !
lady with her arms full of bundll
emerged from a dry-goods store, wh|
one of them fell on the sidewalk will
out her noticing it. Just behind hi
was a young man, and a Belfast you!
man who if not polite is not anyth’®
and he quickly stepped forward to p®
it up. Now a bundle done up in ap®
of paper with a dry goods advert®
ment on it is apparently as harniless®
a mother’s spanking, and there it lay®
guileless as an angleworm on a sidewj
after a rain. Just as he stooped tn®
it up there was a rustling of th' 1 ]
the twist began to come out of the eifl
and in* another instant a bright™
thing, a sort of a cross between®
balloon and a devil-fish, flew into ■
air before his eyes, and a
thirty-six-inch, double-jointed, elnp®
steel-bowed, bustle-attachment, do™
and-a-half, red-headed
waltzed around andgyra’ed and ope™
and shut up and fell on the walk #' ■
and thin as a restaurant pie: ” nl ■
young man straightened hinis If
looked tvs if he wished the 1:11 ■
comet No. 2 would sweep hit”
this fair land; and the young la I '}
back with a resembled# 1
set on a fifty-cent chromo: 1
picked up the wire contr.vance.
then she went toward the east |n
went toward the west, and I”
ducked his head behind a cloud t"
a smile, and three or four
laid down and lauded a* ll '/
themselves up in , . iri”?
have made a mess 1 \ ‘ ’ t . e n »P.lT !( n>
their heads ;n sha^ e ’